Jiang Qinghe is actually not that old, but he has a lot of experience. Although he is not born with a boyish spirit like his brother, he has an ancient charm and a bookish spirit about him, which is different from modern scholars and the like.
Of course, what really made Li Yi think that he might give it a try was that his eyes were very smart. They were different from his brother's, who had as many emotions as his, but they were the same pair of eyes that made people look at him at a glance. The eyes that are unforgettable.
"I especially like your description of Ning Caichen, and of course Xu Xian! I think these two characters are probably the most successful human-monster (ghost) love characters ever created." Jiang Qinghe said.
"Oh? Why?" Li Yi was quite curious.
"I have been exposed to these two stories since I was a child. At first glance, they seem to have no sense of existence. They feel more like foils. For Xu Xian, I only remember his incompetence and verbosity, and for Ning Caichen, I only remember his old-fashionedness. portrait of a scholar, but I was deeply impressed by the two beautiful female protagonists. Nie Xiaoqian described in the story is cold and charming, and White Snake is uncontrollably beautiful, and their abilities are stronger than the male protagonist in the story. , they often have greater autonomy at many critical moments, and they often give more help to the man." Jiang Qinghe has obviously studied these two stories.
This is also true. In fact, whether it is "Nie Xiaoqian" in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "The Legend of White Snake", people often remember Nie Xiaoqian or the thousand-year-old snake demon Bai Suzhen more deeply, rather than Ning Caichen or "White Snake". Xu Xian.
"What about now?" Li Yi asked.
"Actually, I haven't read much of the story "Nie Xiaoqian" because in the original work, the ending always felt a bit ridiculous. The ending of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian in Pu Songling's "Nie Xiaoqian" was perfect.
Ning Caichen took Xiaoqian back to his hometown, and Xiaoqian lived with them. She was popular, could eat food from the earthly world, and had three children.
I actually don’t like this ending very much, because humans and ghosts have different paths, and it involves the love between humans and ghosts. The happy ending always feels like a fairy tale.
As for Xu Xian, I had no feelings for him in the past, but looking back now, my childhood impression has been reversed. They are no longer the foils in their childhood impressions, but the soul of the entire story. Their persistence in love surpasses the two heroines in my opinion. We know that the two female protagonists are aliens and have some abilities that exceed ordinary people. As for the two male protagonists, as ordinary people, if we put ourselves in their shoes, there are many things that we cannot do.
Xu Xian insisted on abandoning his family and son after his wife was trapped in Leifeng Pagoda. He also gave up the way of accumulating virtue by treating diseases and saving people, and chose to always accompany Qingdeng. When I read some comments, I would scold him for being stupid, saying that the merits of curing diseases and saving people in this world are better than reciting some painless scriptures in the temple all day long, and taking care of children. But who understands the pain in Xu Xian's heart? He did not treat such a beautiful and virtuous wife well, but instead made her suffer and was pushed under the Leifeng Pagoda due to his own reasons.
As for Ning Caichen, I don’t know how the story you adapted, Director Li, is, but I think it won’t follow the ending of the original version, right? "Jiang Qinghe looked at Li Yi curiously.
Li Yi smiled, and then handed him a copy of the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
"Take a look and tell me how you feel!"
Jiang Qinghe took it and couldn't wait to read it.
Of course, Li Yi gave him a literary script, which seemed more intuitive.
When I saw: The scholar hurriedly closed the window, blocked the sun with his body, and while weeping, he urged the female ghost to quickly return to his ashes... After a few considerations, a few glances back, a few glances back, then, never again We met.
Jiang Qinghe's eyes turned red and he burst into tears!
"Okay, okay, okay!" He said three good words in a row.
"Although this Ning Caichen is not as wise as Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", it gives people a deeper sense of reality, and the ending is really great!"
"Although Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen were rescued by Yan Chixia, they escaped but could not find a lover and finally got married. Although the two people in "Different Paths of Man and Ghost" have achieved love, they still have to separate sadly. Ning Caichen He didn't even get to see Xiaoqian for the last time. After Nie Xiaoqian's reincarnation, Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia continued to drive their horses away to the end of the world. Such a tragic ending is the embodiment of Eastern aesthetics. Fatalism and reincarnation have been in our country for thousands of years. Culture endures, and no matter how powerful human intervention is, it cannot withstand the wheel of fate.
As the saying goes, "There is a time in life that must be fulfilled, but there is no time in life, so don't force it." Eastern fatalism, which emphasizes optimism and understanding of fate, does not appreciate the Western saying that "fate is in one's own hands." Manpower may change the fate of Jincheng a little, but it cannot change the outcome. Just like in Director Li's earlier "Westward Journey", Sun Wukong traveled through five hundred years and defied heaven several times, but in the end he still had to succumb to fate. Nie Xiaoqian also cannot resist her fate. Let Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian's love end forever and break up with Li Ming, which proves the saying that only the incomplete is beautiful. "
Li Yi couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
Sure enough, people with a little bit of ink in their belly like to be tortured!
The story "A Chinese Ghost Story" is actually not that famous in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". After all, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" contains too many love stories between humans and demons, and between humans and ghosts.
Compared with "Nie Xiaoqian", stories such as Ying Ning are more outstanding.
However, after adaptation, the "Nie Xiaoqian" chapter, which was not so eye-catching at first, has become a well-known story.
In Li Yi's view, the ending is indeed the finishing touch.
After that, it was simply auditioning.
What surprised Li Yi was that although Jiang Qinghe seemed to be incompatible with Ning Caichen, there was no sense of incompatibility when he acted, which surprised him.
After several more auditions, Li Yi finally decided on Jiang Qinghe to play the role of Ning Caichen.
After the male and female protagonists are selected, the preliminary preparations for "A Chinese Ghost Story" are basically completed.
In fact, filming "A Chinese Ghost Story" was much more troublesome than "A Ghost Story".
Because there are many scenes in it that you need to build yourself.
Conquering the Tao and so on also require Li Yi to set the tone.
No matter what, the team of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has finally been formed.
Although the film has not officially started shooting, Li Yi organized the first script reading.
Some movies may not require so much trouble, but for a play like "A Chinese Ghost Story", script reading is undoubtedly necessary.
"Come on, let's all share our thoughts. Well, if you have any questions, you can tell us." Li Yi said with a smile.
The script has been sent to everyone for some time. Sometimes, actors not only need to interpret their own characters, but also need to consider the entire movie, because only by understanding these things can they truly understand the characters.
Chen Wen was the first to raise his hand. He recommended himself to play Yan Chixia because he fell in love with the role when he read the script.
But he was a little confused: "What kind of social background is this? I can't understand it. Also, why do I feel that except for Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen, the other characters, including Yan Chixia, feel like they are deliberately pretending ugly?"
"Hahaha!" Everyone couldn't help laughing.
In fact, this is also what everyone is puzzled about. There was a makeup party before, and Li Yi specifically asked to look ugly.
Especially the makeup and image design of Yan Chixia and other supporting characters can be said to have completely subverted their perception. They are ugly, and they are all ugly!
No, at this time, another actor who played Xia Hou, Yang Zheng, raised his hand with a smile and said, "Brother Q, my character is actually not ugly!"
"Hahaha!"
There was another burst of laughter. Not to mention, among the characters in the entire film, the only one who did not pretend to be ugly was actually the character Xia Hou.
Of course, in fact, although Yan Chixia is ugly, she at least has a decent personality, while the others are really ugly.
"Let me explain. After reading the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story", what kind of society do you think they live in?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"This, chaos?"
"Ignorant and worldly?"
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Everyone said something and I said something, but they all had the same feeling, that is, it was an extremely dark, depressing and despairing world.
Li Yi nodded: "I did it on purpose, how should I put it? Mainly because I want to use these, through the ugliness of these people, to reflect the ignorant world of living in a chaotic era, and the human form has been distorted with the times.
In my mind, the market in the film is full of butcher-like warriors, arresting people savagely; the ugly fortune teller, and the ugly county magistrate who speaks in dialect.
Not only are they ugly, I hope they can form a picture of a suffocating, depressing and disgusting social atmosphere. Everyone is so godless, and they still exude the stench of a dead body.
And why is Xiahou different from others? Because Xia Hou, who pursues the false reputation of being the best swordsman in the world, is more humane than others. After all, he has his own clear pursuit, and this pursuit is considered very high compared to the pursuits of those ugly people in the market; I want Through these, it is shown that in that perverted society, ugliness has become the norm, while beauty only exists in the hearts of the hermits who do not care about worldly affairs and the poor scholars who are bullied everywhere and used their lives as a joke by the ugly people in this society. Isn't this the greatest tragedy of society?
Therefore, the tree demon who has been cultivating for thousands of years can also loudly claim that he is doing justice for heaven and eliminating harm to society; then, Yan Chixia laments that he is a human but does not want to be a human being, and Xiaoqian is a ghost but wants to be a human being; thus, the most touching scene Only love can appear between humans and ghosts
In fact, there is nothing in this society that can stir people up in the hard disk. Everyone has drifted with the crowd and doesn't know where their souls are. Like a pool of stagnant water, there are no moving stories to tell. Therefore, the ups and downs of the story naturally take place at the dark edge of society, where the true love and hate intertwined and the pure personality can be found, finally retaining a mysterious corner of beauty in this world. Because of this, the story of the ghosts in Lanruo Temple in the deep forest attracted me deeply, even though the story is ups and downs, terrifying and unsettling.
Everyone pursues beauty and security in their souls. When they cannot have both, what will you choose? "
When everyone heard this, some were confused and some were thoughtful.
"Ask me, what kind of person do you think Yan Chixia is?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
"He, I think, he has a bit of an angry youth personality!" Chen Wen pondered for a moment and said.
"An angry youth personality?" Everyone was a little confused.
"Yes, to be precise, he is full of justice, full of chivalry, and loves to fight against injustice. However, there are too many injustices in the world, and there are endless things to deal with, so much so that he has to escape from the world and live in seclusion in the mountains and forests.
The original meaning of a chivalrous person is a person or behavior that relies on one's own strength to help the bullied. In the development process of China's extensive and profound chivalrous culture that has lasted for two thousand years, it has added the following elements: robbing the rich and giving to the poor, punishing the strong and helping the weak, acting bravely when seeing justice, and sacrificing oneself to help others. and other various forms of expression, as well as spiritual connotations such as loyalty, integrity, bravery, and not asking for anything in return, and derived some people who make this career, called knights.
Li Bai, one of the more famous chivalrous knights in history, claimed to be "a white horse with a frosty sword, capable of killing people thousands of miles away." At least we believe that chivalry is a kind of heroic spirit, which exists in Li Bai's poems and can not be seen but felt.
In our story, Yan Chixia, with her belief in justice and passion, takes it as her own duty to restore justice and safeguard kindness, whether it is against corrupt officials, friends, evil forces, or ordinary people who can distinguish right from wrong and punish ordinary people. Encouraging evil and promoting good has become the protector of people like Ning Caichen who also believe in justice and kindness. It has also become an invisible supervisor that deters the government from avoiding or mitigating corruption, and attacks the evil forces that the government cannot control so that they have to restrain themselves. The antagonist of evil.
The reason why I like this character is because I think Yan Chixia is the most unique in the entire film. He is the defender of the human world, but he is the hero Yan Chi who is neither accepted by the government nor the demons. Xia.
In my opinion, Ning Caichen's appearance only caused the phenomenon of the weak being bullied, and it was Yan Chixia who solved this problem.
Ning Caichen only has kindness. In the words of the story, he has "love", and his love comes from himself. If he didn't have love with Xiaoqian, would he care about saving people's lives that have nothing to do with him? ?
No, he was just trying desperately to help his own people get out of trouble. Without Yan Chixia's guidance, even Xiaoqian couldn't be saved.
Yan Chixia, on the other hand, kept saying that she would no longer care about Jianghu affairs, but her strong sense of mission made her stay away from anyone who needed help. She kept saying that she didn't care about Ning Caichen, but she not only saved Ning Caichen's life again and again, but also saved Ning Caichen's life time and time again. Moreover, he further rescued Xiaoqian and others, and tried their best to attack the thousand-year-old tree demon, one of the evil forces, and completely eradicated the old black mountain demon. If Ning Caichen did it for his love, all Yan Chixia's efforts were in vain. His own interests have nothing to do with it. All he has to do is calm his heart that beats violently due to chivalry and injustice.
My favorite hero is Yan Chixia. I like the words when he hugged Ning Caichen and cried bitterly, "Your justice is so much like me when I was young, and I was so touched." He was grateful to others simply because of their kindness. "
(End of chapter)
